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This year, the SAICFF Jubilee Award for Best of Festival went to The Oath of Desormeau, a fifty-five minute film written, produced, and directed by the husband and wife team of Richard and Kristina Ramsey of Aletheia Stage and Film Company. Set in Napoleonic France, The Oath is a gripping allegory which shows how one man’s vow to protect two orphaned children is carried out even after he himself dies. The film incorporates important themes like honor, generational faithfulness, defense of womanhood, and personal integrity. The Ramseys also won the $1,000 Audience Choice Award by an overwhelming five-to-one margin. The humility, gratitude, family teamwork, and Christian vision of the Ramseys and their team was deeply moving to all of us.